Trains from Melbourne to Dubbo start at $84.09.
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Melbourne to Dubbo on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Trains from Melbourne to Dubbo starts at $84.09, run by 2 operators over 818 km. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 20, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
$107.75 to $201.17 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.
12Go issues the ticket, and you book it here on Orlero.
Pick a departure for Melbourne to Dubbo and pay on tickets.orlero.com, our booking site.
The price is the one 12Go sets, with every fee shown before you pay.
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
Changes at Canberra, with 47 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 7h 17mCO2 88.9 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Changes at Sydney, with 101 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 9h 53mCO2 33.5 kgChanges 1Refundable
| Operator | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|
| NSW TrainLink | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power outlets, Wi-Fi |
| Fly Pelican | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
The train gets you into Dubbo. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 6h 40m | 2h 27m | 4h 13m | $130.95 | 243.1 kg | 1 |
| Train | 7h 17m | 4h 33m | 2h 44m | $84.09 | 61.2 kg | 2 |
The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
The Train from Melbourne to Dubbo covers 818 km. Each operator's own departure and arrival times for the date you pick are in the search at the top of this page, beside the total price.
The Train from Melbourne to Dubbo starts at $84.09 for one passenger, as of October 4, 2026. A typical fare is $101.38. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
2 operators run the Train from Melbourne to Dubbo: NSW TrainLink, Fly Pelican. The operator table on this page sets out fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
The Train from Melbourne to Dubbo leaves from North Melbourne and arrives at Dubbo City Regional Airport DBO. Allow about 1h 57m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
The Train is the cheapest way from Melbourne to Dubbo, at $84.09, against 1 other modes that also run the corridor. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
Fares for the Train from Melbourne to Dubbo bottom out around 30 days ahead, at $82.88. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 143 percent, measured on October 4, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Train from Melbourne to Dubbo produces about 61.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 818 km, which works out at roughly 75 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
Operators on the Train from Melbourne to Dubbo publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
The train is the simple part. What you do once you are in Dubbo is somebody else's catalog.
Day trips that leave Dubbo in the morning and cover a good part of Australia by evening.
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7h 17m
4h 33m
$107.75 to $201.17
07:30 to 07:30
2
61.2 kg
Rail